flight director
Launch operations leader
A flight director is the person in mission control who leads a spacecraft operation, coordinating all flight controllers and making critical decisions during a mission: The flight director called for an abort.
In aviation, a flight director is an instrument system that displays guidance cues to help pilots maintain a desired flight path, showing pitch and roll commands on cockpit displays.
Earth-based space operations hub
- consoleComfort in distress
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
- ApolloSun deity, moonshot namesake
- telemetryDistant automated data collection
trajectory · orbit · rendezvous · docking · reentry · splashdown · anomaly · checklist
Aviation traffic service
- air traffic controlManaging aircraft separation and movement
- towerTall slender edifice
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- airspaceRegulated overhead flight zone
navigation · clearance · approach · departure · sequencing · separation · handoff · transponder
mission control
Earth-based space operations hub
telemetry · trajectory · orbit · rendezvous · docking · reentry · splashdown · anomaly · checklist · abort
ATC
Aviation traffic service
- air traffic controlManaging aircraft separation and movement
- towerTall slender edifice
- radarRadio-wave object detection
airspace · navigation · clearance · approach · departure · sequencing · separation · handoff · transponder · ground control
cinematography
Motion picture visual craft
- camera movementRepositioning the filming device
- craneLifter or wader
- dollyWheeled moving platform
Steadicam · tracking shot · pan · tilt · zoom · rigging · operator · grip · blocking · choreography
- aviation termsradar, tower, runway, landing strip, transponder
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- airport workerspilot, baggage handler, gate agent, ticket agent, check-in agent
- Mission ControlHouston, Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center, JPL
- rocketry professionrocket scientist, astronaut, aerospace engineer, mission controller
- space jobsastronaut, cosmonaut, taikonaut, mission commander, rocket scientist
flight directorflight controller
Ground-based spacecraft operator
support staff · intern · trainee · administrator · ground crew
flight directorastronaut
Spacecraft crew member
cosmonaut · pilot · flight crew · space traveler · aircrew
flight directortest pilot
Aviator who evaluates new aircraft
astronaut · pilot · aviator · flight crew · aircrew
flight, director, flights, flying, flier, direct, directs, directed, directing